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• 05 déc 2018

  Lyon

  Study days - History

  The collection of witness statement in cinema, literature and in the humanities and social sciences

  Cette demi-journée d'étude explorera les  enjeux posés par les dispositifs de collecte de voix dans le cinéma documentaire, en littérature et en histoire à travers les interventions d'Alice Leroy, Boris Gobille et Eléonore Devevey. 

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• 22 oct 2018

  Vauvenargues

  Call for papers - Modern

  Let's go crazy!

  Tête-à-tête journal (no.10)

  À travers les œuvres et la pensée créatrice, elle propose à ses auteurs d’appréhender cette folie, peut-être nécessaire et magnifique, qui s’exprime dans une forme de démesure, d’excès, d’utopie ou de dystopie, mais encore de décalage ou de distorsion qui peuvent être la marque d’une lucidité tournée tant vers la franche rigolade que vers l’authentique désespoir. Que sa raison propre l’éclaire ou l’aveugle, le fou est conduit à prendre des risques, à transgresser, à déraper, à devenir aux yeux d’autrui et du sens commun un individu hors-norme. Cette folie amuse mais elle inquiète aussi car, dans un geste réfléchi ou pulsionnel, le fou peut basculer du côté de l’irrationnel (fun ou déviance) mais aussi dans une forme de sagesse, voire une certaine philosophie du monde. Faut-il donc être déraisonnable pour être fou ?

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• 15 avr 2018

  Nanterre

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Techno-Realities and Affective Creatures: the Love Simulation Devices

  Modern-day embodiments of Baudelaire’s Artificial Paradises, the techno-realities are seen as a threat to human relationships in “real” life, in particular when they relate to love. Such human-shaped products however multiply: domotic spouse, tactile screen’s boyfriend, holographic companion, bride for Virtual Reality glasses, interactive downloadable partner, otomegames and bishōjogamescharacters… pending the development of Hololens friends. The explosion of these technologies (forecast to reach 181 billion euros in 2021 for VR only) generates anxiety and rejection. People engaged in Love Simulation Games have to face attacks: emotional relationships with non-existent beings are frowned upon. The tendency to get involved with a digital creature is being stigmatized, as opposed to founding a family (i.e. a reproductive unit). In spite of the stigma, a growing number of men and women, worldwide, are however using love devices: how can we explain that?

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• 15 mar 2018

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Representation

  Capitalist Aesthetics

  Open Cultural Studies Journal (De Gruyter)

  Open Cultural Studies, an OA peer-reviewed Journal (De Gruyter) invites submissions to a special issue on  Capitalist Aesthetics edited by Dr Pansy Duncan & Dr Nicholas Holm (Massey University The issue will explore the aesthetic configurations—from the cute to the comfortable, from the no-brow to the fringe—through which the economic logics of late capitalism come to crystallize today. It invites work that treats the stylistic and formal dimension of cultural objects, and the verdictive and affective dimensions of cultural discourse/experience, as valuable “cryptograms” of contemporary ideological formations and the economic relations they sustain.

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• 15 jan 2018

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Marx, Semiotics and Political Praxis

  This special issue of Open Cultural Studies will return to the work of Karl Marx to reflect on and engage with his coherent articulation of words and their use, of words and actions, and of the intellectual and the political. The coherence of his discourse and praxis offers tools to think through, if not seek to transform, the alienated semiotic landscape of our times as described by the Frankfurt school philosopheers, Jean Baudrillard, Frederic Jameson, Sloterdijk and Slavoj Žižek. To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth, in this special issue we want to honour his 11th Thesis on Feuerbach: "philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."

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